--- title: To keep trains apart, the line is cut into sections, and a signal sh… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics description: To keep trains apart, the line is cut into sections, and a signal shows red while a train is in the section ahead. Who acts: signal, train. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Trains and the Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/) / 6 # Trains and the Underground, sentence 6 To keep trains apart, the line is cut into sections, and a signal shows red while a train is in the section ahead. **Who acts:** signal, train · **What happens:** keep, cut, show, be · **To what, where:** trains, line, sections, section This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signal, train), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:6 # text = To keep trains apart, the line is cut into sections, and a signal shows red while a train is in the section ahead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 apart apart ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sections section NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 section section NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ _ 25 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | trains | | | | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | present · passive | | the line | | sections | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into section=Product | | 3 | **show** | present | a signal | | | | | red *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a train | | | the section | | ahead *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trains and the Underground, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/5/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/)